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Alexander Hamilton

A Life

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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Set against a background of political conspiracy and sexual scandal, Willard Sterne Randall's engaging, authoritative biography brings to life Alexander Hamilton, the illegitimate son of a Scots merchant, who became a dashing Revolutionary soldier and outmaneuvered scores of better-born staff to become George Washington's principal aide, speechwriter, and legal adviser. Less than six years after the American Revolution, Hamilton pulled the infant nation to its feet, galvanizing it into a profitable, fast-growing commercial and military power that was independent of Europe. A ruthless and very successful New York businessman, he became the first secretary of the treasury and created the first federal bank. The American corporation was his brainchild, the stock market his legacy. Hamilton was the first to anticipate the Industrial Revolution and to envision America at its helm, but his "delirium of ambition" ended in tragedy. Although scandal, Washington's death, and, finally, Aaron Burr's bullet stopped Hamilton's surge for the Presidency, his towering influence lives on in the global economy of the twenty-first century.

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Henry Holt

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0805058974

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George Washington

A Life

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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George Washington

A Life

By: Willard Sterne Randall

Willard Sterne Randall, whose biography of Thomas Jefferson was hailed as "outstanding” by The Wall Street Journal and whose Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor was praised as "riveting” by The New York Times, turns his attention to the founding father of our country--George Washington. Randall tells the fascinating tale of a man who turned an impoverished childhood into a life of creative rebellion. He follows Washington’s rise to greatness as he turns from managing plantations to becoming a professional soldier and eventually joining in the fight again taxation without representation, which would spark the American Revolution.

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Galahad Books

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1578661528

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The Founders' Fortunes

How Money Shaped the Birth of America

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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The Founders' Fortunes

How Money Shaped the Birth of America

By: Willard Sterne Randall

An illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.

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Penguin

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1524745928

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A Little Revenge

Benjamin Franklin at War with His Son

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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A Little Revenge

Benjamin Franklin at War with His Son

By: Willard Sterne Randall

Few know that Benjamin Franklin had a bastard son named William, a brilliant young man who first served Benjamin as military adviser, legal counsel, and pamphleteer, eventually rising to Royal Governor of New Jersey, only to became his father's implacable enemy.

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Quill

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0688107907

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9780688107901

Ethan Allen

His Life and Times

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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Ethan Allen

His Life and Times

By: Willard Sterne Randall

Presents a biography of the frontier Founding Father who led a daring attack on Fort Ticonderoga and almost single-handedly brought the state of Vermont into the Union.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393076652

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9780393076653

Unshackling America

How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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Unshackling America

How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution

By: Willard Sterne Randall

A Glow of Patriotic Fire"--"Salutary Neglect" -- "Force Prevails Now Everywhere" -- "For Cutting Off Our Trade" -- "To The Shores of Tripoli" -- "The Reign of Witches" -- "Free Trade and Sailors Rights" -- "War Now! War Always!" -- "Remember the Raisin" -- "Purified As by Fire" -- "Father, Listen to Your Children" -- "You Shall Now Feel the Effects of War" -- "Destroy and Lay Waste" -- "Hard War" -- "So Proudly We Hail" -- "I Must Not Be Lost

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St. Martin's Press

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1250111838

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Thomas Jefferson

A Life

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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Thomas Jefferson

A Life

By: Willard Sterne Randall

Marking the 250th anniversary of Thomas Jefferson's birth, a new biography presents Jefferson as a man thoroughly influenced by the philosophical movements of his time

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Henry Holt and Company

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0805015779

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9780805015775

Forgotten Americans

Footnote Figures Who Changed American History

By: Willard Sterne Randall,Nancy Nahra

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Forgotten Americans

Footnote Figures Who Changed American History

By: Willard Sterne Randall,Nancy Nahra

In 1779 a Philadelphia belle, Margaret Shippen, married a hero of the ongoing Revolution, General Benedict Arnold. Within months Peggy was sending coded messages to an old suitor from England, conveying Arnold's promise to defect. When their plot was discovered, the general fled. Peggy distracted George Washington with hysterics before following her husband. The British government eventually paid Peggy far more than Benedict Arnold ever received.A generation later, the Philadelphia neighborhood where Margaret Shippen had grown up was home to a businessman named James Forten. Due to his invention for rigging sails, Forten was rich enough to build large public halls and bankroll political causes. At the same time, this veteran of the Revolution was losing his political voice because he was black.Margaret Shippen Arnold and James Forten are just two of the fifteen fascinating but little-known lives told in Forgotten Americans. Weitten by an honored biographer and an award-winning poet, this entertaining book shines a light on overlooked figures. Traditional histories have often neglected these people, for many reasons. Some were on the losing side of a conflict, such as Tecumeseh, who spent years trying to unite Indian nations against white settlers. Others worked behind the scenes, like Annie Turner Wittenmyer, who took charge of supplying Union hospitals in the West during the Civil War. And some we disregard because their actions now seem unsavory, as with the once-celebrated ”Indian-slayer” Tom Quick.From these fascinating threads, Will Randall and Nancy Nahra weave a rich tapestry of American life. In it we witness the power of religious revival and the lure of mass entertainment. We watch philosophical differences split the nation. We see the shift in Native American's lives from Teedyuscung, a Delaware murdered despite his conversion to Christianity, to Louis Sockalexis, the baseball prodigy. These lively stories also reveal little-known facets of the famous: Benjamin Franklin's disinherited son, Thomas Jefferson's secret politicking, and how Mary Todd Lincoln's confinement to a mental hospital became a public issue. From early settlements to the close of the nineteenth century, the brief biographies in Forgotten Americans engagingly fill out our knowledge of the nation's past.

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Da Capo Press

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0738201502

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A Little Revenge

Benjamin Franklin and His Son

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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Benjamin Franklin and His Son

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Reveals the stormy and vengeful relationship between Ben Franklin and his illegitimate only son, William, who served as royal governor of New Jersey, and presents a new dimension to this great American figure

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Little Brown & Company

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0316733644

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9780316733649

Leadership Lessons: Thomas Edison

By: Willard Sterne Randall,Nancy Nahra

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Leadership Lessons: Thomas Edison

By: Willard Sterne Randall,Nancy Nahra

Thomas Alva Edison was one of the most extraordinary innovators and entrepreneurs to ever walk the earth. In 1876, he opened America's first research laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey, promising to produce "a minor invention every ten days and a big thing every six months or so." He kept his extravagant promise. In the next decade alone, he invented the phonograph, the incandescent light, the Dictaphone, the mimeograph machine, the electric power-plant dynamo, motion pictures, and electric transmitters. Here, in this short-form book, is his unforgettable story, with lessons for business people everywhere.

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New Word City

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1612307310

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Ethan Allen: His Life and Times

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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Ethan Allen: His Life and Times

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The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father. Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state. Chronicling Allen’s upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen’s life—his capture during the aborted American invasion of Canada, his philosophical works that influenced Thomas Paine, his seminal role in gaining Vermont statehood, his stirring funeral in 1789—Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth, historical folklore that people have handed down, as if Allen were Paul Bunyan. As Randall reveals, Ethan Allen, a so-called Robin Hood in the eyes of his dispossessed Green Mountain settlers, aggrandized, and unabashedly so, the holdings of his own family, a fact that is glossed over in previous accounts, embellishing his own best-selling prisoner-of-war narrative as well. He emerges not only as a public-spirited leader but as a self-interested individual, often no less rapacious than his archenemies, the New York land barons of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. As John E. Ferling comments, “Randall has stripped away the myths to provide as accurate an account of Allen’s life as will ever be written.” The keen insights that he produces shed new light, not only on this most enigmatic of Founding Fathers, but on today’s descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, whose own political disenfranchisement resonates now more than ever.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393082288

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9780393082289

Unshackling America

How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution

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St. Martin's Press

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Leadership Lessons: Thomas Edison

By: Willard Sterne Randall,Nancy Nahra

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George Washington

A Life

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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George Washington

A Life

By: Willard Sterne Randall

A classic biography, "George Washington: A Life" tells the human story of one of our founding fathers. "Randall's demythologized Washington comes vividly to life".--"Publishers Weekly" (starred).

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Macmillan

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080505992X

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The Founders' Fortunes

How Money Shaped the Birth of America

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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How Money Shaped the Birth of America

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Leadership Lessons: Robert E. Lee

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Leadership Lessons: Robert E. Lee

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Robert E. Lee took up arms to defend the South's system of slave plantations. Yet he considered the ownership of slaves such an abomination that he freed his own. After the Civil War, his name became synonymous with duty, honor, and courage. Here, in this short-form book, is his story along with lessons for every leader.

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Leadership Lessons: Robert E. Lee

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Benedict Arnold

Patriot and Traitor

By: Willard Sterne Randall

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Benedict Arnold

Patriot and Traitor

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Benedict Arnold's name has become synonymous with the word traitor, but Arnold's legend neglects the fact that Arnold was an outstanding military leader, and had several important victories against the British in the early days of the American Revolution. This volume presents portrait of the man, giving the reader an understanding of Arnold's motives for betraying the country for which he had once fought so diligently.

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